Jeff has worked on a number of 3D animation projects over the years, and is passionate about this part of his work. He created a realistic 3D animation of the steam train which crashed at Tangiwai in 1953 for The Wedding Speech short film proposal, and a model of the Wairarapa steam ship for A Very Nice Honeymoon.

There will be several 3D animated scenes of the submarine in The Eco-Terrorists which will be used to show the passing of time in the film. Jeff has begun work on the 3D modeling of the submarine. The scenes included on this proposal’s DVD are initial renders, and if the film is given the green light, more work will be put into this part of the film to create some stunning, photo-realistic scenes.

The set for The Eco-Terrorists will be built at Avalon Studios with Kevin Leonard Jones as art director. Kevin has worked on many films and television productions including Braindead, Return to Treasure Island and Paradise Cafe.

The 50 metre set will be a full-size replica of the inside of a World War 2 uboat, complete with control room and engines with moving pistons. The set will be built on Avalon’s sound stage with portions of it being built in a “wet set” so that later in the film there can be three feet of water through the submarine. The uboat will be dressed like a house-truck from the 80s, as the submarine was supposedly rebuilt by a hippy commune. It will therefore have things like stained glass mobiles, rainbows and crystals hanging from the ceiling. The set is like a character in the movie, and a great deal of the sense of fear will be created by this claustrophobic space and the frightening creaking and grinding sounds that a submarine stranded underwater would produce.